Be warned. Thousands of tarantulas will be making their way across Colorado very soon. No, it’s not the plot from the 1990 film “Arachnophobia,” but a perfectly normal, and very real (albeit creepy to ...

Ask most people and they will tell you love can be risky business, but this time of year, one species has a monopoly on that risk: tarantulas. They are migrating through America’s plains by the ...

The Malaysian purple-femur tarantula ( Coremiocnemis hoggi) constructs burrows sealed with silk webbing in steep, shaded areas of montane tropical rainforest. Poachers dig the spiders out of these ...

The Malaysian purple-femur tarantula inhabits easily recognizable silk-sealed burrows in a hilly area of Malaysia that covers ...

(LA JUNTA, Colo.) — Under the Colorado sun, just beneath the cactus-infused grounds in the Vogel Canyons, female tarantulas are burrowed. “The burrows go pretty deep and they have just like a thin ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LA JUNTA, Colo. (KDVR) — While tarantulas ...

A wild tarantula crosses a trail in Orange County in late September. Due to a lack of data, it's difficult for scientists to confirm anecdotal reports of declines in spider and insect populations.

Scientists have found a new species of tarantula, a red-reared arachnid, in Arizona, and the discovery was "rather unexpected." “We often hear about new species being discovered from remote corners of ...

Coloradans who visit La Junta and Comanche National Grassland this month will have their best opportunity to see some popular eight-legged creatures: tarantulas. September is typically the golden ...